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  Grinnell College
Grinnell, By the Numbers

  • About 1,600 students
  • Most classes have fewer than 20 students
  • 13 percent international, 26 percent U.S. students of color
  • More than half of students study off campus during academic career
  • 26 majors, 11 concentrations
  • Over 500 course offerings every semester
  • 9:1 student/faculty ratio
  • 96 percent of faculty lives near campus
  • 52 percent of students complete at least one independent study course
  • More than 70 study abroad programs around the world
  • 3,000 internship opportunities in the United States and abroad
  • Beautiful Joe Rosenfield '25 Campus Center, the heart of the campus community
  • Burling Library contains 1,000,000 books and documents
  • Newly renovated 237,000-square-foot Noyce Science Center
  • State-of-the-art Creative Computing Lab, with 20 fully loaded Macs
  • Commodious theatre and visual arts studios in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
  • World-class exhibitions at the Faulconer Gallery
  • 500+ free events each year
  • 100+ student organizations
  • 15 student art and music organizations
  • Major (and free) concerts, productions, and lectures each year
  • 18 men's and women's varsity sports
  • NCAA Division III competition
  • State-of-the-art athletic facilities
  • One-third of students engage in varsity athletics
  • In the top 1 percent of colleges and universities for PhDs per graduate
  • 36 percent of alumni are active donors; 66 percent have given recently

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